Massow (half)
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Massow
Halbe municipality
Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 59 ″ N , 13 ° 38 ′ 24 ″ E
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| Postal code : | 15757 |
| Area code : | 033765 |
 Former headquarters building in Massow
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Massow is an inhabited part of the municipality of Freidorf , a district of the municipality of Halbe in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg .
location
Massow is located in the extreme southwest of the district and thus southwest of the community center. It borders in the west on Dornswalde , a district of the city of Baruth / Mark and in the south on Staakow , a district of the municipality Rietzneuendorf-Staakow . The FFH area of Massower Heide borders the residential development to the north-west . To the west, the federal motorway 13 leads in a north-south direction with the nearby junction Baruth / Mark past the residential area.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1847 as Forsthaus Massow in an official journal of the Potsdam government. It was a forester service establishment in the royal forest district of Hammer and was built at the intersection of the two paths from Baruth- Buchholz and Neuendorf -Staakow. In 1858 eight people lived in the village. In 1860 it reappeared as a protective area and forester's house, part of the Hammer forest district. At that time it consisted of a residential and two farm buildings. In 1874 Massow was assigned to the Semmelei manor district.
In 1925 six people lived in the village. In 1929, the forestry department of Massow with around 208 hectares of the Semmelei estate was incorporated into the municipality of Tornow and from 1932 onwards it was a residential area of Tornow.
During the GDR era , the area was used by the "Feliks Dzierzynski" Command 3 guard regiment founded in 1954 , which, among other things, monitored the construction of the Berlin Wall . VEB Housing Combine Potsdam built a "Teupitz military training area" with numerous shooting ranges and surrounding infrastructure, including a culture and event center, a polyclinic, a sales point, a dining room and a barracks kitchen. The security guards for the radio objects in Zeesen , Wernsdorf and Gosen were stationed there. The guards for the outer ring of the Stasi prison in Hohenschönhausen were also located there . In addition to local units, officers of the then Iraqi head of state Saddam Hussein also trained here . PLO cadres also received training there. At the edge of the area there was a bunker for the GDR leadership. For Alexander Fröhlich of the Potsdam Latest News , the Massow was "one of the most important locations of the Feliks Dzierzynski Guard Regiment". According to a dpa report, it was 49 square kilometers, the "largest area that the Stasi Ministry for its guard regiment took over".
The regiment was disbanded after the fall of the Wall . After the end of military use, a large part of the area was declared an FFH protected area. The heathland and other open habitats created by the use are to be preserved for endangered animal and plant species. Due to its proximity to the A 13, parts of the built-up area were used as a rest area with a hotel. After being used as a rehabilitation clinic until 2012, it served as a hotel that was aimed at visitors to the Tropical Islands amusement park, among others . During this time there was a scandal when former soldiers of the guard regiment set up a boulder with the inscription "Guard regiment FE Dzierzynski 1960–1990" next to the entrance of the hotel. After protests from the population, the stone was removed after a few days. The then head of the memorial in Hohenschönhausen, Hubertus Knabe , filed criminal charges against unknown persons.
The former clinic has been used as accommodation for refugees since 2015. At the end of February 2015, around five hectares of overaged heather stocks were burned in a controlled manner and since that time have been kept free with the help of sheep grazing by the agricultural cooperative Löpten-Briesen.
Attractions
- FFH area Massower Heide, a 441 hectare protected area with open inland dunes of up to 600 meters in length and a habitat in endangered zoo such as the goat milker
literature
- Lieselott Enders : Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg: Teltow (= Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg . Volume 4). Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1976.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Kopietz: The stumbling block . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 21, 2012, accessed on May 10, 2020.
- ^ Matthias Bengtson-Krallert: The GDR and international terrorism . Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, 13 March 2017, ISBN 978-3-8288-6662-1 , p. 260–.
- ^ Martin Kaule: Relics of the State Security: Structural legacies of the MfS . Ch. Links Verlag, 5 March 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-765-6 , p. 28–.
- ↑ Alexander Fröhlich: A memorial stone for the Stasi regiment . In: Potsdam Latest News , November 22, 2012, accessed on May 10, 2020.
- ↑ dpa: Atlas of the secret GDR areas - around 6000 areas so far proven . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , March 15, 2015, accessed on May 10, 2020.
- ^ Karen Grunow: Former Massow Clinic becomes a refugee home . In: Märkische Allgemeine , February 16, 2015, accessed on May 10, 2020.
- ↑ Massower Heide , project sandrasen.de, accessed on May 10, 2020.